The rape case was dropped by Centre County prosecutors on the eve of trial in 2008, when a county judge decided that a jury could hear that Minder had accused someone else of similar crimes four years before. That man was acquitted.

Scott told the Patriot-News in May that he filed the suit in an effort to clear his name. Even though the criminal charges were withdrawn, he said, he is still haunted by news reports and Google searches.

“It’s always nagging, it’s always there,” Scott said in May. “I feel that I can’t
move ahead because I feel that everything was taken away.”

Scott admits he was probably not going to be a first-, or maybe even second-round draft pick for the NFL. He spent time overseas playing in the German Football League, but got homesick, and now works in construction in Scranton.

The lawsuit had claimed that police reports were altered, and evidence was fudged to bolster the case. Minder, who had testified in criminal court proceedings that she told Scott "no" and "stop," later said in a deposition that she never got the whole words out of her mouth.

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